Grants & Opportunities

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Open and Upcoming Grants & Opportunities

Deadline October 16

Emerging Traditional Artists Program

Connect with your peers, participate in professional development workshops, and receive up to $5,000 supporting your projects.

Deadline October 16

National Leaders of Color Fellowship

A professional development and networking opportunity for arts and cultural workers of color.

Thursday, October 19 at 11 a.m. ET

Virtual Speed Networking: Partners in the Know

In this webinar, participants will learn more and network with South Arts' partners in the field.

Online Professional Development Workshop

Opening October 2, 2023

Southern Prize and State Fellowships for Visual Arts

The Southern Prize and State Fellowships is open to visual artists in our nine-state region to support, expose, and celebrate the breadth, depth and diversity of artistic excellence.

Opening October 17. 2023

Jazz Road Tours

Jazz artists, take your music to places it's never been. Jazz Road Tours offer grants of up to $15,000 to develop tours into communities across the country.

Ongoing

Express Grants

Open to organizations in rural communities of 50,000 people or less, the Express Grant program offers expedited awards of up to $3,000 supporting the presentation of touring artists.

Ongoing

Professional Development and Artistic Planning Grants

These grants offer up to $1,000 to support artistic planning and the professional development needs of Southern presenters, programmers, or curators.

Ongoing

Call for Presenters and Venues

We are looking for presenters of all types, from jazz clubs to places of worship to performing arts centers to house concerts to non-traditional presenters, and communities from rural or isolated to urban.

Additional Information

Closed and Archived Grants & Opportunities

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View our Recently Closed Grants and Opportunities

Search Our Grant and Fellowship Recipients

Meet South Arts' grant and fellowship recipients, and search through the projects we have funded.